Brief by Shorts91 Newsdesk / 07:27am on 29 Aug 2024,Thursday Science
Astronomers using the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope have discovered the brightest object ever observed, a quasar named J0529-4351. This quasar is over 500 trillion times brighter than the Sun and is growing at a rate of one Sun per day. Quasars are extremely luminous cores of galaxies powered by supermassive black holes, which emit intense light as gas and dust fall into them. The discovery, published in Nature Astronomy, marks J0529-4351 as the "most luminous object ever observed" and highlights its rapid growth and extreme brightness, making it one of the most extreme cosmic phenomena known.
